Progression quotes

Progression

51 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.

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Charlie Parker
Charlie Parker Musician, Composer

"I realized by using the high notes of the chords as a melodic line, and by the right harmonic progression, I could play what I heard inside me. That's when I was born."

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Samuel Johnson Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
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"Life, to be worthy of a rational being, must be always in progression; we must always purpose to do more or better than in time past."

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"'New' movies are almost always hipper, faster, they mix genres aggressively, they smother their genre origins in new form, there are fewer of them, and they tend to cost a lot more money because you usually make more money on the megahit than you do on the steady progression of break-eveners. Except for the horror movie."

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